Change of Tone

I've noticed that I'm too academic on this blog. While my sarcasm skills are showcased, I use too many big words and complex sentence structures. This is supposed to be leisure reading, not a doctoral thesis. Therefore, from now on I'm trying to incorporate more down to earth approaches into my rants. I have lots of stand-up-esce (see, I can even make up words as I please, and it won't matter!) material that I've been holding back because I didn't think it would work with the established format. You may be thinking that for some time I've been gradually "dumbing down" the entries, but now I'm making it official.

I will never EVER degrade this blog down to a mediocre journal/diary level in which I just give nonchalant, overly detailed reports of every little thing I did that day. Memoirs are stupid and only extremely vain individuals believe that others are actually entertained by such topics.

This is not a public forum. I write entries, and they should be considered absolute.

Awkward Situation: Bathroom Reading

After eating breakfast in the Commons this morning, as usual I grabbed today's issue of the Colorado Daily and headed back to my room. However, things turned deadly when after boarding the elevator I had a sudden and quite urgent need to use the bathroom. I was then faced with a predicament. Should I rush into the bathroom, newspaper in hand? Exiting the communal floor bathroom with reading material doesn't send the nicest message to floor mates. Or, should I just pray that I can hold it for a little while longer, unlock my door, chuck the newspaper inside and re-lock before going to the bathroom? That seems awfully strenuous in exchange for avoiding some minor embarrassment.

On a related note, how many times have you walked into a stall only to curse out the anonymous person before you that didn't flush? So you have to flush before sitting down because that's just gross. But then, you don't want to flush after you're finished because then it'd seem as though you took a really big dump and needed a courtesy flush. It's a vicious cycle. Man, I'm pathetic.

Sarah is a Liar

Maybe some of you have seen Sarah McLachlan's video; the link has been plastered all over the web. Here is yet another location: http://www.worldonfire.ca/ She was given $150,000 to make a video and spent $15 (exactly 0.01%) on the actual video. She claims the remainder went to the different scenarios mentioned thoughout the video. Too bad that someone didn't come up with this idea decades ago. Maybe that artist would have built a math building and possibly a calculator for Sarah. The figures just don't add up. Feel free to follow along in the video to my calculations below. As the figures show, there is $1,715 unaccounted for. I'm not belittling her generous and progressive idea. However, I do find it disturbing that she had to mislead the public concerning exactly how much she spent.

$148,270-->amount donated

150,000
- 148,270
$1,730 -->actual video budget

1,730
- 15
$1,715 -->amount overbudget